Thursday, May 5, 2022

JESUS DE/CONSTRUCTED FOR LENT, PART 1 OF 6



JESUS D/C SERIES




JESUS DE/CONSTRUCTED FOR LENT
PART 1 OF 6



UPDATE

Tripp’s book has proved hard to find for many of you. HERE is a PDF of the book. We just ask you don’t share it and if inspired purchase a delayed or digital copy.

Class Outline

We will have 6 weekly sessions each Thursday at 5pm ET. In addition to these sessions, there will be a special visit from the author of After Jesus Before Christianity: a Historical Exploration of the first two centuries of Jesus Movements.

  • 3/3 SESSION 1: De/Constructing Jesus & the Lenten Journey
  • Reading: the introduction to Freeing Jesus and chapter 1 of the Guide to Jesus
  • 3/10 SESSION 2: the Consequences of C.S. Lewis’ Worst Idea
  • Reading: Guide to Jesus ch 2-4
  • 3/17 SESSION 3: from Executed Prophet to Cosmic Christ
  • Reading: Guide to Jesus ch 5-7
  • 3/24 SESSION 4: Freeing Jesus from Christendom Capture
  • Reading: Freeing Jesus ch 1-3
  • 3/31 SESSION 5: One Jesus, One Story, & a Multitude of Christs
  • Reading: Freeing Jesus ch 4-6
  • 4/7 SESSION 6: De/constructed Jesus & the Journey of Holy Week
  • Reading: Freeing Jesus conclusion & Guide to Jesus ch 8


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Illustration by Steve Thomason



LOSING YOUR BIBLE CHARTS
Session 1


Jesus De/Constructed with Diana and Tripp
Mar 3, 2022

1:39:55
SESSION 1: De/Constructing Jesus & the Lenten Journey. What does it mean to take up the Lenten journey when Jesus may come with more baggage than blessings and occasions bigger questions than confidence? As we kick off this class we want to get honest about the baggage and the questions Jesus brings and explore what Lent looks like when they aren't silenced or erased.

Check the group out here: http://jesusdeconstructed.com



amazon link

Christology is crazy. It’s rather absurd to identify a first-century homeless Jew as God revealed, but a bunch of us do anyway. In this book, Tripp Fuller examines the historical Jesus, the development of the doctrine of Christ, the questions that drove christological innovations through church history, contemporary constructive proposals, and the predicament of belief for the church today.
Recognizing that the battle over Jesus is no longer a public debate between the skeptic and believer but an internal struggle in the heart of many disciples, he argues that we continue to make christological claims about more than an “event” or simply the “Jesus of history.”
On the other hand, C. S. Lewis’s infamous “liar, lunatic, and Lord” scheme is no longer intellectually tenable. This may be a guide to Jesus, but for Christians, Fuller is guiding us toward a deeper understanding of God. He thinks it’s good news—good news about a God who is so invested in the world that God refuses to be God without us.


NOTES

LENT is a time of deconstruction - personally, institutionally, nationally, globally

There are periods in our lives where we must look at ourselves and ask God who we are, where we are going, and how we should proceed.

Deconstruction comes in many forms from job loss, to the death of loved ones, to economic events, epidemics, riots, racism, war, family breakdowns, etc.

Losing your idea of Jesus and the Trees which speak to us in our lives for God...

Some areas in our lives we find ourselves losing our version of God, or your idea of the "mystic" bible, or your fundamentalist theology, or your church-grounded beliefs, to be then turned upside-down and shaken out by God asking us to think about what we are doing, why we are doing, how we are doing, or the direction we are going towards doing what our idea of ourselves.

The Trees In Our Lives - the Alters in our lives which re-sink again into our hearts those moments of lostness to the be found again by God

Patterns Discovered in the Two-Question Survey

Our Questions shape us - Shame and Trauma in the Church, The Problem of Evil,
We wrestle with existential questions which conflict with our faith and acts, have formed our faith and acts, and nag us to be resolved in Jesus.

Stories of Redemption

We are still generating our own meaning and stories which cannot be controlled by one source - we live in a matrix within a matrix within a matrix ad nauseum.

R.E. Slater
March 3, 2022


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What Does It Sound Like When Two Friends Discuss Their Struggle With The Concept Of God? If Those Friends Also Have A Shared Interest In Science, Philosophy, And Religion It Could Sound Like This.

My Super-Nerd Friend, Sarah Lane Ritchie, Is Back On The Podcast For A Strikingly Honest Conversation About God And What Is Required For A “Minimally Viable” Concept. It Centers On Three Particular Affirmations:

  1. God is personal
  2. God is transcendent
  3. God provides for postmortem existence

Dr. Sarah Lane Ritchie received her B.A. in Philosophy & Religion from Spring Arbor University, an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, and an M.Sc. in Science & Religion from the University of Edinburgh. She obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh in Science & Religion with a thesis on divine action and the human mind, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of St. Andrews. She has published a book with Cambridge University Press and numerous articles in academic journals, and continues research in the field of science and religion.

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